Secondary winding for asynchronous motors



A. LINDSTRUM.

SECONDARY WINDING FOR ASYNCIIRONOU S MOTORS. APPLICATION FILED mm. Is.1921.

1 ,406,566, Patented Feb. 14, 1922.

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ARVID LINDSTRM, OF VESTERAS, SWEDEN.

SECONDARY WINDING FOR ASYNCHRONOUS Application filed March 18, 1921.

T 0 all to 7mm it may concern Be it known that I, Anvil) Linnsrnoivr, asubject of the King of Sweden, residing at Almelund 3, Vesteras, Sweden,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Secondary indingsfor Asynchronous Motors, of which the following is a specificationreference being had thereinto the accompanying drawing.

For increasing the starting torque of in duction motors withshort-circuited secondary winding (preferably disposed on the rotor)special arrangements of said winding has been employed which consisteither in making the slots as well as the conductors deeper than usualor in placing two conductors in the same slot one in the top and theother in the bottom portion thereof, or finally in providing two rows ofslots, one inside the other, with channels between each slot and theunderlying one. In all these cases the conductors have been fixed intheslots. The advantage of the described arrangements has, however. beencombined with the drawback of a large leakage reactance, causing a lowpower factor and a small overload capacity at normal speed of the motor.

The present invention has for its purpose to overcome the saiddisadvantages and consists in making some of the conductors in each slotof the secondary core capable of assuming different radial positions inthe slot for different speeds or loads. This change of position iseffected automatically or by hand by special means.

It has been proposed in induction motors where all the secondaryconductors are not permanently short-circuited to make some of saidconductors radially displaceable in their slots for bringing them intocontact with short circuiting rings as soon as a certain speed isreached. In counterdistinction from this construction, the presentinvention relates only to such motors where the entire secondary windingis permanently short-circuited, and which are much more simple andreliable in construction and operation.

Two forms of the invention are illustrated in the accompanying drawing.Fig. 1 shows a portion of arotor in across sec tion taken just outsidethe iron core and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section of an end portion of thecore and winding. Fig. 3 shows Specification of Letters Patent.

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Patented Feb. 14, 1922. Serial No. 453,242.

a longitudinal section of one half of a slot and adjacent parts withanother form of the invention.

In all the figures, l is the iron core, a is the fixed conductor in aslot and Z) the movable one. The fixed conductors are shortcircuitcd inthe usual way for instance by means of a ring (Z. The movable conductorshave flexible comiections 0, consisting of cables or thin laminations,which are soldered or welded at one end to the conductors and at theother to a common ring which may be the same as that connecting thefired conductors together. The movhble condue-tors are pressed againstthe bottom of the. slots by spring action when the motor is at rest orrotates slowly. By reason of the leakage in the slot between the twoconductors the current then flows mainly through the fixed conductorswhich produce a strong torque, by reason of their comparatively largeresistance. When the speed has become sufficiently higln. thecentrifugal force will overcome the spring action on the movableconductors which are thus pressed out towards the fixed ones so as tolie closelv against the latter when full speed has beeii reached(position Z2 The leakage is then small, and the movable conductorscontribute fully to the passage of the current and lower the-totaleffective resistance and consequently the slip. In the same time, thepower factor of the motor will be as great as in a usual squirrel cagemotor.

The spring action for pressing the conductors 6 against the bottom ofthe slots is effected, in the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2-, by coiledspring rings 6 surrounding the ends of said conductors. The ringspreferably engage notches f in the conductors for being kept in place.

In Fig. 8, the spring action is exerted y leaf springs 9 fixed to theconductors b by means of rivets 7t and resting against the conductors a.The springs may be guided relatively to the latter for instance by meansof pins j engaging slots is in the springs.

Having now described the nature of my said invention and the manner ofits operation, I declare that what I claim is 1. A secondary winding forasynchronous motors comprising two sets of permanently short-circuitedconductors one of which is and the ovcload capacity fixed in theironcore While the other is capable of assuming different radial posi-ctions during the starting of the motor.

2. A secondary winding for asynchronous motors comprising two sets ofpermanently *short-circuited conductors arranged in the same slots, oneconductor in each slot being fixed in the outer portion thereof whileanother is capable of assuming different radial positions in the slot.

3. In asynchronous motors, a stator havin a rimar Windin a-rotor corehavin slots, a set of fixed conductors in said slots, a :set of radiallymovable conductors in said slots, resilient members pressing saidmovable. conductors against the bottom of said slots, and shortcircuiting rings permanently connecting the ends of all the saidconductors. 7

4. In asynchronous motors, a stator having a primary winding, a rotorcore having slots, a fixed conductor in the outer portion slots, a. setof fixed conductors in said slots,

a set ofradially movable conductors in said slots, reslhent membersholding the ends of said movable conductors together, and shortcircuiting rings permanently connecting the ends of said fixed andmovable conductors.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in the presence 01 twoWitnesses.

V ARVID LI DsTRoM.

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